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=== ''Anaconda'' (1997) provides examples of: ===
=== ''Anaconda'' (1997) provides examples of: ===


* [[All-Star Cast]]: [[Jennifer Lopez]], Jon Voight, [[Ice Cube (Music)|Ice Cube]], Eric Stoltz, Owen Wilson, and Kari Wuhrer. Yeesh.
* [[All-Star Cast]]: [[Jennifer Lopez]], Jon Voight, [[Ice Cube]], Eric Stoltz, Owen Wilson, and Kari Wuhrer. Yeesh.
* [[Artistic License Biology]]: Oh so very much, all in the name of the [[Rule of Scary]]. Among other things:
* [[Artistic License Biology]]: Oh so very much, all in the name of the [[Rule of Scary]]. Among other things:
** Anacondas don't grow that damn big.
** Anacondas don't grow that damn big.
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* [[Impending Doom POV]]: Played with, as the looming creature coming after Owen Wilson and Kari Wuhrer {{spoiler|turns out to be a wild boar, not the snake. She'd turn up later.}}
* [[Impending Doom POV]]: Played with, as the looming creature coming after Owen Wilson and Kari Wuhrer {{spoiler|turns out to be a wild boar, not the snake. She'd turn up later.}}
* [[Instant Drama Just Add Tracheotomy]]
* [[Instant Drama Just Add Tracheotomy]]
* [[Kill It With Fire]]: "Hold on, I think I can blow it up!"
* [[Kill It with Fire]]: "Hold on, I think I can blow it up!"
* [[Large Ham]]: Jon Voight. Oh, god, Jon Voight. Let's just say, he's the main reason to watch this movie. By far.
* [[Large Ham]]: Jon Voight. Oh, god, Jon Voight. Let's just say, he's the main reason to watch this movie. By far.
* [[MacGuffin]]: The native tribe.
* [[MacGuffin]]: The native tribe.
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{{quote| '''Sam:''' That is either the bravest or the stupidest thing I've ever seen.<br />
{{quote| '''Sam:''' That is either the bravest or the stupidest thing I've ever seen.<br />
'''Bill:''' It's a fine line. }}
'''Bill:''' It's a fine line. }}
* [[Everything's Better With Monkeys]]: Kong, Bill's pet monkey.
* [[Everything's Better with Monkeys]]: Kong, Bill's pet monkey.
* {{spoiler|[[Evil Brit]]: Jack}}
* {{spoiler|[[Evil Brit]]: Jack}}
* [[Just Think of the Potential]]: The search for the blood orchid flower, the chemicals of which could yield the attainment of biological immortality.
* [[Just Think of the Potential]]: The search for the blood orchid flower, the chemicals of which could yield the attainment of biological immortality.
* [[Hoist By His Own Petard]]: {{spoiler|Jack gets bitten by his own paralizing spider, falling into the snake pit and getting eaten}}.
* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: {{spoiler|Jack gets bitten by his own paralizing spider, falling into the snake pit and getting eaten}}.
* [[MacGuffin]]: The blood orchid.
* [[MacGuffin]]: The blood orchid.
* [[Misplaced Wildlife]]: This movie has anacondas ''in Borneo.''
* [[Misplaced Wildlife]]: This movie has anacondas ''in Borneo.''

Revision as of 14:26, 9 April 2014
People go up river, big snake is very hungry. Guess what happens.
—The NZ Listener's twelve-word review of Anaconda

Monster movie with an All-Star Cast ranging from Owen Wilson to Jon Voight to Jennifer Lopez to Ice Cube on the hunt (in their own various ways) for the eponymous giant snake. Largely notable for Jon Voight as Paul Sarone, chewing up scenery with a far greater appetite than any serpent could muster.

There were three sequels which oddly enough Arc Wielded itself across three movies:

  • Anacondas: Hunt for the Blood Orchid: Which had a company sending a team into the Amazon to find a flower that was supposedly the fountain of youth. Not surprisingly they have to contend with the numerous anacondas to get it.
  • Anaconda 3: The Offspring: In which one of the anacondas was captured and experimented on to find out its longevity. It escapes, breaks out its mate and goes on a rampage (made more deadly due to the fact that these anacondas have spear tails from the experiments...no we're not making that up) some mercenaries are sent to get it back. Notable for staring David Hassleholf
  • Anacondas: Trail of Blood: Which continues where 3 left off. The offspring of the previous anaconda is found and used to help make the flower. The anaconda breaks out once again while the employer from the last movie sends more mercenaries after the scientist who took the anaconda for his own to get the fountain of youth serum. All the while a previous character from the last movie is looking to destroy it. Yeah its just as confusing and convoluted as it sounds. Oh the snake can regenerate in this one.

The latter two movies were direct-to-video, and all three sequels are considered worse than the original.

On a side note - it's rather easy to miss this, but there are in fact two anacondas in the first film, not one. The first is killed by a shot to the head that blows its brains out, but many viewers assume this to be the same one encountered in the factory later on because it sank into the water prior to dying and isn't seen afterwards. The second doesn't have any facial injuries, is a different color, and is clearly bigger, presumably a female.

Anaconda (1997) provides examples of:

Anacondas: The Hunt For The Blood Orchid (2004) provides examples of:

  • Big Bad: Jack is exposed as this by the end of the film.
  • Black Dude Dies First: Gloriously subverted when the whiny, scared, "we never should have come here" black guy is one of the four people to survive to the end. And all of his complaints were actually valid (and typically considered valid by non Idiot Ball holders), if ignored.
  • Chekhov's Gun: The rock spider.
  • Dulcinea Effect: When Gail gets attacked by a crocodile, rather than grabbing a rifle, Bill simply jumps into the water and starts wrestling the crocodile with a knife. Lampshaded.

 Sam: That is either the bravest or the stupidest thing I've ever seen.

Bill: It's a fine line.

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